Empty Spam Quarantine

[IndyJ]

I made a backup of my rules before making some modifications. Later when I restored the rules from backup the spam quarantine was suddenly empty.
Sometimes important mail ends up in the quarantine. Is there a way to recover these messages so they can be released?

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

No - the backup does not contain quarantined mails (or queued mails) - since this is data that is transitional in nature (if you restore a backup from 1 year ago you do not want to get the old mails in the quarantine)

 

[IndyJ]

Thanks for the response. The question was not "does the backup also contain messages from the spam quarantine?"
The issue is that restoring rules from a backup would make the quarantine suddenly lose all of its mail, which is what happened to me.

I take it those messages, that were once in the quarantine, are permanently gone.